Obviously heavily inspired by Thread_Whisperer idea, I did a little something to use for all ooc stuff etc.

The Haunted Well

Malchik - as - Campaign Manager
[Usual online hours: (UK time GMT) 6-8 am; 4-6 pm and midnight to 1 am]
(That is 1-2, 7-9, and 15-17 CET)
(and is 7-9, 17-18, and 23-1 PST)
(and is 10-12, 20-21, and 2-4 EST)
You can also use this link for timezone easyness: www.worldtimeserver.com


Current Players...
Nord Camp Group

Masurao - as - Garrick
Race: Altmer (Male)
Class: Battlemage
Timezone: GMT +1.00 in the Netherlands.

Morgoth - as - Wulfgar
Race: Nord (Male)
Class: Warrior
Timezone: CET (GMT+1), Hessia, Germany

Ismail - as - Ismail
Race: Nord (Male)
Class: Warrior
Timezone: ?

Kheskeim - as - Ulf
Race: Nord (Male)
Class: Mage
Backstory - More info/story
Timezone: CET (GMT+1), Malta - is online most of the day due to work and in general all the time

Alit Group

ominae - as - Zow
Race: Redguard (Male)
Class: Custom class
Char sheet/some info - Portrait
Timezone: GMT - 08:00 Pacific time (British Columbia, the first one on the site, Canada)

xavori - as - Ander
Race: Imperial (Male)
Class: Battlemage
(not active IC anymore)


Dew_Loc - as - Hadrio
Race: Redguard (Male)
Class: Thug
Backstory - Portrait
Timezone: ?

y2kewel - as - Darian
Race: Bosmer (Male)
Class: `Urban Ranger´
Timezone: ?

If you want me to put in a class or change anything else, just pm me or write in here of course.



Inventories

Name: Ismail Rondam
Race: Nord
Age: 28
Weapons: Rondam sword, dagger
Armour: Rondam chainmail and shield, gloves, boots.
Potions: none
Scrolls: none
Enchanted Items: Ring of Rondam
Other: some gold, torch, bedroll,... (classic equipment)

Ring of Rondam: Activated at will, surrounds wearer with invisible armor, making him invincible for 10 minutes or until he attacks (If gamemaster approves).

Name: Wulfgar
Race: Nord
Age: 18
Weapons: Silver War Axe
Armour: Nordic Chainmail, Oaken Roundshield
Potions: None
Scrolls: None
Enchanted Items: None
Other: None

Name: Ulf Vilhelmsbane
Race: Male Nord
Age: 57-59
Weapons: Staff of frost (frostball area effect)
Armour: None
Potions: 17 restore health, 15 restore magicka, 1 cure disease, 1 cure poison, 6 fire shield, 2 invisibility, 3 resist magic
Scrolls: 1 divine intervention, 3 third barrier shield, 2 fire shield, 1 chameleon
Enchanted Items: Silver Amulet of Foul Intellect (constant plus to int and minus to pers.)
Other: notebook and pen

Used: 3 restore health, 1 cure poison (Zow and Hadrio treatment: 1 of each))


Name: Garrick
Race: Altmer
Age: around 134, apparently
Weapons: Skullsplicer, Nordic silver war axe
Armour: Nordic helm, Nordic sooth-covered cuirass, steel gauntlets, pauldrons, greaves and boots, Imperial shield
Potions: Restore Health 1, Restore Magicka 1, Invisibilty 1
Scrolls: Shield 1, Levitate 1
Enchanted Items: Skullsplicer (uncharged, ignores all damage resistance)
Other: several bags of raw ingredients

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Name - Zow
Race - Redguard
Age - 27
Weapons - Long bow, Spear
Armor - Modified Dark Brotherhood Armor
Potions - 4 healing, 4 poison, 3 Magika Restoration
Scrolls - None
Enchanted Items - Goggles (Night eye), Ghillie Suite (Chameleon)[Acts as a robe: over armor]
Other - 3 lockpicks, 2 probes, 2 repair prongs, arrows

Name - Ander
Race - Imperial
Age - 32
Weapons - Two-handed mace
Armour - Iron platemail
Potions - Three Healing potions
Scrolls - None
Enchanted Items - None
Other - None

Name: Hadrio Sidosus
Race: Redguard
Age: 23
Weapons: Adamantium Machete; "Paincake" (large lead-nailed Histwood club)
Armour: Oversized, baggy boiled-leather shorts; boiled-leather/adamantium boots
Potions: 2 healing potions; 4 poison potions; 5 sujammas
Scrolls: None
Enchanted Items: Ancestral bandana - constant effect summon Ancestral Ghost when user is dealt serious blows, with strength inversely related to amount of user's health (folded neatly in back pocket)
Other: Many steel and flint shards

Name: Darian Embershot
Race: Bosmer
Age: 30
Weapons: Auriel's Bow, Ebony Wakizashi (former deadra).
Armour: Nect leather armor, insulated and oiled leather cloak.
Potions: 4 quality heal, 1 restore strength, 1 restore stamina
Scrolls: None
Other: light emitting amulet in a leather sheath, ring of minor heal, Steel arrows, silver arrows, and fire arrows. (hence the name, Embershot.) Fletching kit, armor and weapon repair kits.

Used or not with him anymore:
- Ebony dagger (is in the Alit)


Note: Remember all deadric equipment has turned into ebony.

Hey, by the way Darian has some changes to his info: daedric -> Ebony, and no more dagger. Also Ander is a battlemage.

got it - updated

Good idea to highlight what Malchik needs to determine, although I don't know if he would prefer to find out what needs to be determined himself

I find it rather hard to roleplay these actions, as you really have to cover your ass if something goes wrong. Also the coordination part is somewhat comical sometimes hehe.

But fun it is.

Im sure Malchik will read it all over and determine for himself anyways, just trying to make it 'easier' lol.

Also I suggest everyone post in the character descriptions thread, so we all know each other more, (and how we act) just my 2 cents.

This is my first role play, and it is fun indeed. It difficult to assess the situation, especially when the area is not fully described. But that would be a lot more work for Malchik lol. For example: If there was a vally around the town, me and Ander would be able to easily see the signal. Things like weather too, just about anything can effect you.

Also with the current tactic we have going, I tried to plan it, like how you first suggested (by splitting up) so that each of us can do an action, and Malchik would be able to answer us all. Instead of waiting to do one action, then another; because Malchik can't update too, too often. This way we deal with the shack mad women, food, and (hopefully) Ooka, all together.

Yea that was also part of my reasoning without taking away from the fact that it seemed smart to old Ulf aswell hehe.

My char has undergone some big changes since the start of this.. most of it is in the extensive backstory here: Backstory Ulf - but also in a lot of smaller ways.

I have tried to read up on what went on in the Drunken Alit with all your chars and also before than in the amazingly confusing all mixed up thread haha.
But I think if we have the time to do some IC hints and small references to this and that reg. our character, then it will all be more immersive. Since there is a danger to reading too much OOC stuff.. I think

Anyway, thanks for tonight, I am heading back home to sleep (at work) - it's pooty 8 am in the morning and I slept like 4 hours in the last 48 hours :-P

Hope the old hag bid us for tea and cookies (uncontaminated) and that you find some deers or other in the woods. Good luck and sleep well when it comes to it.

ps: will lurk in here later on today.. and do some more damage

Wow you need sleep, get at least 8 hours lol. Talk to you later then, hmmmm tea and cookies.

While I would not force the others to stop posting, I do believe it is a sign of courtesy to be a bit slower about the decision-making process. Ander protested at splitting up, for example, and I would have backed him up on that. Now more than half of our group is gone and the others had no say whatsoever in what happened. I do believe it was said that you should expect some slower posting and there is no harm in getting used to it: when a combat situation comes, you'll only get one post until Malchik updates. (This excludes some actions, but you only get one decent combat post )

Another point of contention is Ook and he told me up until now, the only two beside me who were present when I told Ulf about it, were Ulf and Wulfgar. (I believe) You haven't relayed that information to the others and neither did I, so no one knows why not to trust Ook at all, other than what Ulf said.

I agree. With an international rpg it can well mean only posting once per day. The RPGs I have seen work best when the players are in the same time zone or no more than an hour or so apart. Sometimes it is possible to have two groups in one rpg and they can be divided up along those lines. However this rpg states as a main objective that the competition is about team work. I will do my best to go along with what you post but do try to remember you are now eight trying to work together. Another comp requirement is 'adaptability'. Frustrating though it is, try to keep the time-line as logical as possible. We can assume some element of gossip not spoken in the thread but it looks better to account for it if you can. Anyhow - atm those in the house know nothing about what is happening in the shack and vice versa.

Kheskeim awakans after sleeping 8 hours.. argh

Guys, I see your point OOC - it was a bit forced, I simply thought why not roleplay a bit with the guys that was awake and as it was their chars wanted to get the hell out of that house og so did mine. One of the things keeping Ulf sane is being busy and not feeling helpless as a pawn in a big game of blind chess. He was actually loosing some control in a post I wrote, just before Malchik updated with the blisters on Ulf arms.
Anyway, I guess it was a bit of a very late night and the timeframe of real life combined with the fact that ingame they have absolutely nothing to drink.

Ook told Garrick and Wulfgar, Garrick told Ulf. I don't think anyone else knows everything to the story. Wulfgar told them Ook had been assaulted, when he woke them up though. Ulf obviously put all his distrust in one basket - that of Ook's. Further he believes the house is cursed or enchanted and he feels he is suffocating in there. Zow would have left the house if the others had wanted it or not and so would his group with him, Ulf found it better to go with them as to not having them mess up the potential only lifeline they had - the mad woman. So he would have advocated this, nomatter what Garrick was told by Ook. (be refuses to believe it could have been any from the two groups)

Just a bit of info to level it up. I know we missed a good opportunity for a clash of oppinons between our chars there - but we will have to take that later now.

I will try to keep my pace down. But then I would also like to know more about the timescale in the game, is it still morning, is is night, is it foggy/sunny that sort of thing would often affect chars actions a lot imho. If it has been hours since Ulf woke up he will by this time be dehydrated to a high extent. Remember he had sweated heavily during sleep and continue to "heat up". That is and will obviously affect both his judgement and his actions.

Okay back to the story.

Ominae, you place yourself with Ander at the hut Wulfgar, Ismail and I are in. Ulf places you with the old woman. Through the previous posts, I too would place you in that shack and so did Malchik.

Either you or Ulf will need to do a retcon of his post to keep things moving smoothly.

Since we already spoke with the old lady and since Malchik determined there was nothing to hunt nor forage anywhere, it would be most logical that they would be at the shack.

Okay, if Malchik allows and that is what the chars want to, we will soon be back at the house all of us now. That should maybe clear things up a bit...

ps: God either my connection is really bad or this forum is slower than ants in whelchairs today.

I was at the shack? I thought I was out hunting, WHILE the second group was at the shack. It did seem odd that Malchik described me being on the floor, instead of ground. Sorry if I mixed up anything, but I was under the impression that I was with Ander looking for food OUT of town. Oh well, looks like we will all be meeting at the house anyways.

I don't want to interrupt you enjoying the roleplay, but I would suggest to stop posting for now - Ismail and Garrick have not yet reacted to Wulfgar's question, and there is a certain time interval that must be filled before Ander and Zow enter the house again. Just so we get the timelines synchronized again.

Oh, sorry about that, ill edit my posts so that I have not arrived yet. If that helps

That isn't really a problem, since your post more or less only states that you enter the house - as long as you can tell for your next post what awaits you inside the house, that's absolutely in order IMO.

I will not post before any of the 3 characters in the house receives Ulf/us or Malchik indicates that we are there. Again sorry for getting this a bit out of hand.

I missed a post from Kheskeim, that indicates I was in the shack somehow. It seems Malchik thinks I am at the shack, so I'll just modify my posts, so that I am at the shack, even though I should not be. Sorry for the mixup, and in perticular to xavori, for his post reflects my old post.

By the way, I DONT have an afro lol.

haha sorry dont know where that came from (removed)

I will modify my posts too, if there is a consensus that people are at the shack and stays there. I will then have Ulf treat both there...

On the other hand Ulf saw this as a way to get back to the house and bring the news about food and the "mad" lady to his friends, so it's in his interest to go there. Although he can't just go alone, when treating others.

Edit: I changed my recent post to reflect that we are still just outside the shack or on our way there.

Now I'm absolutely confused

Where am I, and with who? Where are the others?

Ok, me and you have been put into the shack, so bottom line is, the poeple in the shack RIGHT now, are me, you, and Darian. Ulf and Hadrio are outside the shack/on the way to the house, and the rest are in the house still.

I have to say your group is best at being in several places at once. I am going by this post but can I also suggest that Darian has gone across to talk quietly with Dull Griet and the others are waiting for the reply which I have just added. This then makes sense of most of the previous posts I think.

I am refraining from posting at the moment, at least until Ismail has had a chance to post (or until somewhere tomorrow, at least ) Anyway, just to give you a heads up.

Whats the time zones for everyone? so we know aprox when people can post. Seems like many can only post when i'm asleep. might help to know... Found a good site for time zones too.

I am GMT - 08:00 Pacific time (British Columbia, the first one on the site, Canada)

If anyone wants to check it out the site is: www.worldtimeserver.com

(hope I am not going against any rules posting a website)

I'm at GMT +1.00 in the Netherlands.

GMT but at the moment I'm not getting much sleep!

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No, Ulf is still outside the shack as I said.. consensus and he had to treat both Zow and Hadrio. He means to go there tho, before any action was taken in the shack - too late now hehe.

Anyway, we have to get the story going a bit in the house guys.. you'll just have to either play a bit for Ismail (as little as possible) or assume he for some reason passed out or similar.
.. inside the boundaries of courtesy

I am in timezone CET, GMT+1 - although I am awake like an american a lot of the time. I work insane hours and tend to spend a little time here in between my tasks.

It bother me a little that nothing has been said about the potions and Ulf's brandy being poisoned or not, but I guess they have not since Malchik has not taken action against any treatment using the potions.
He is down to only one cure poison potion now though.. and the alchemist tools are of course at the camp hehe.. talk about being stranded.

Yeh I guess if Malchik doesnt say anything, then you just assume the potion, or whatever the case may be, has worked and carry on. Were going to need to somehow buy or make potions sooner or later indeed, btw I know some minor Restoration, so I am able to cure/heal (if possible) myself. So you can save yourself a potion there


Like to add, for Malchik: Are we (me and Ander) able to be moved from this spell? What else does it prevent us from doing? Can we talk? etc etc..

Just wanted to blah that if I put a placeholder it's because I am writing something that might affect others. So to avoid conflicts and wasted time, just wait a few (I know my posts are friggin long! ) or message me or something. I will try to keep it to max 15-20 min ever.

My dude's class is thug, btw.

Typin' my backstory right now.

Roger that DL - updated.

If you all have backstories posted somewhere or will have, just pass the link and I will hammer it into this wicked piece of virtual marble.

Edit: Inserted Zow's char sheet and portrait, Hadrio's char sheet/backstory and portrait, and Ulf's backstory + more info. Too tired to look for more now

I would friendly request that everyone makes haste in getting back to the house so everyone can be updated on what has happened. I.e. just one post to get there and perhaps explain something from your perspective to the others. Not only do I want to keep the game moving a bit smoothly, I'm also itching to give you guys the 'I would have told you so!'-lecture of a lifetime!

Hahaha and I am itching to get it! Even think Ulf will be disappointed, if he isn't scorched for this mess.

I made that post now, but left you to decide when you heard them approach, so it fits in with your chars timeline.

edit: AND feel free to use "and Ulf told what happened in the details as he knew them" or similar, I have no prob with that all.

ps: where the devil is Ismall?

Updated my backstory (god damn, took me a lil' while), check up on it if you wanna understand my character a bit better (warning, its long)

Well, as of late I haven't been able to catch up with the posts (Every time I check the forum there's a whole new page to read, practically), and thus I haven't been able to post acurrately. I don't think I'll be able to keep going in the competition, since my availability doesn't allow me to keep up with the speed (I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, which probably has something do with it).

Long story short, I'll be leaving the competition soon enough, unless a miracle happens and things slow down here. I'm not blaming anyone, just stating the facts that prevent me from catching up.

Yeh, every night after I get up and have a chance to look up on the progress, a new page of stuff appears. However luckily for me, I have (temporarly) a lot of freetime . Good luck though.

Okay, I am fine with in-character discussions, Dew_Loc, but you will please, for the love of god, keep racism out of the fricking picture!?! Not only is that insult ludicrous and based on nothing, I repeat NOTHING my character has said or done, it reflects bad on me as a player too.

Perhaps your character feels oppressed, fine, perhaps he has a history of slavery, okay. But don't you go on the racism tour, my friend, that is not warranted in this game and by all means a low and dirty insult, which, as you should notice, is making me quite mad.

Also, there is little canonical information that suggests Redguards and they alone receive are the target of bigotry throughout Tamriel. You've played Morrowind, you know Khajit and Argonians are much worse off in that province. Unless you have forgotten, the Imperials technically enslaved all other races and provinces.

My character is no saint, he calls it as he sees it, he doesn't know exactly what went on outside of the house, but to Garrick Zow and Hadrio were the cause of this. He may be wrong, but this is how he sees it. Zow has put himself beyond this and through his post my character can make attempts to further mend the bond between them. What you are doing is outright stupid and I have no idea what you are trying to achieve here, as it seems your are hell-bent on disrupting our entire team.

I don't know what kind of RPGs you are used to playing, but this not mainstream and will certainly NOT gain you any friends in regular RPG environments.

I will not even dignify your post with a response, hoping you will edit it appropriately. Up until now every member in the group has been willing to cooperate, Zow turned after my fiery speech, which is not directed at the player, but the character and he got that. You are the only one left that is not conforming to the requirements of the competition: adaptability and teamwork prime among them.

I already contacted Malchik to explain my post and he informed that our group is giving him the most trouble teamwork-wise. I know there is a lot at stake here, with Oblivion being the prize and all, but this is just becoming ridiculous.

I don't believe I am being over-sensitive or that I am asking too much here.

I'd like to second that - playing characters who are not perfection personified is what makes roleplaying interesting, but as a player one should keep in mind that the aim of roleplaying a believable character ends at the point where the character's behaviour disrupts the entire story and makes it impossible to continue with the story.
I'd like Wulfgar's last outburst to be viewed in that context - at the moment he feels rather overwhelmed with the entire situation, and simply goes mad at a certain comment he more or less randomly picked up from the entire conversation. If he can recognize that people will make attempts to reconcile and move towards working together with the aim of solving the actual problems ahead, he will certainly cool down again.
At the moment, he is a nervous wreck.

I'm still hellishly confused, i mean my character was just trying to stop a fight, and continue on, but now somehow he is the enemy? how did that happen?

Read one post before yours, that will hopefully make it clearer
Sorry if I'm only adding to the confusion, I may return and edit my post.

EDIT: Good reply, seems like Zow's brought Wulfgar to his senses again

Hi there guys. You have quite a lot of good stuff going on so try to calm the flaming. All groups have problems with keeping up to date and getting together as a team. Yours is taking a bit longer than the others to get together. In an RPG you actually don't have like the people you are with in game but you have to find a way to work with them. Find something about the character you can like and put other things on hold. Playing a loner type in RPG is always hard and they are in other threads too but you have to develop your character to understand the need to work together. And it all ends in a week! Keep up the good work and forget the ructions.

I just want to second that emotion Malchik mentioned. This is my first try at this kind of forum game, and I have to say it's a blast - and a frustration at the same time haha. Lighten up fellows, I mean it, everyone has contributed with a lot of really good stuff that has been a joy reading and re-rereading, because I didn't understand what was going on, having either missed posts or read them wrong.

I agree it's very hard to "come back" after having been out of the thread for a long while, but here and in a LOT of other things the keyword has to be adapt. Find ways to make your character part of what has been and what is going on. If you have problems with either parts of the story or someones post, or just need an oppinon on how to go about it, just send a PM to anyone in our little group or Malchik.. heck or anyone else I would think in here.

It's not the quantity of posts or words it's the quality of those you make. Directed at anyone but especially xavori - don't go man, we need you here both IC and OOC.

The time difference is hard and we might have to try and do two subgroups. But for now we have to stay one I think.

About the racist bs, I dont think anyone want that or have wanted to imply it as anything but a thing in game. Not all are lore buffs and whatever race can possible find reason to hate another etc. So please guys.. settle down and continue. Player to player.

Entho.

Concerning the postscriptum: No, ominae got that right that Wulfgar was addressing him, but I hope that my posts here have clarified why he has acted that way.
Wulfgar's very young and has virtually no experience or knowledge how to behave in situations like the one our group was in or the situation our group is facing in general, is already slightly weakened by lack of food over the last days and finally snapped in that extremely heated and stressful situation. His reaction was completely beyond rational thought, and not really intended, as his subsequent break-down hopefully shows.

Personally, I didnt think they were trying to be racist, but its all over now, we should prob not go there again.

We are all good now, and im not trying to picks sides or anything but its over, let it be, dont mean any offence to you 'Hadrio', but sometimes we just need to walk away.

Lets continue with the story then!

(at least it makes the story more interesting; with all the conflicts)

Yes, let's get on with the story.

I have a question which maybe some of the more seasoned guys can answer.

A lot of times, I have made Ulf do some stuff, which I awaited reactions for from DM. Now this is NOT a complain about missing DM activity hehe (argh Ulf go boom now), but more in the line of.. if I make too many actions in between DM activity will some of them simply be ignored or is it more of a "you dont get anywhere with doing that anyway" dmg control from the DM?

Or maybe it's simply just a matter of not having time to do rolls and whatnot for all of it, ant thus taking only those things into account, which matters mostly to the chars/story etc?

Thanks for any Alit poo you can pour over this question.

I have some Alit poo for you. I am controlling nine threads here, I have a full time job, an active sex - er I mean social - life and an unfortunate need for sleep. Need I say more. In most role plays the participants are only expected to make one post a day that requires a DM intervention. And the DM replies only when all posts are in. This does not prevent interplayer interactions of course. If all players can post more often and the DM is happy that can be increased but for international RPGs with all the different time zones that isn't really practical. If you guys are really keen on rpg I'm happy to run one later on. And if you are all in the same time zone I can cope even though I am not. But let me get this one finished first it is quite tiring trying to remember everything! As of tomorrow I can only post three times a day so if you need a DM intervention or reply, and as you get to the conflict you almost certainly will, you will get it at around (UK time) 6-8 am; 4-6 pm and midnight to 1 am. Enjoy.